Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s what we’ve learned about how to establish a successful internal consulting group. ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. They’re going to be support; they’re going to tell other users how to fix things when they don’t work right. That might be the new chasm that we have to figure out how to cross, the deregulation one.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

For example, an executive in his mid-thirties and in a career transition began by asking "How can I make a bucket of money?" Which then changed to "How do I create something for the long term?" Share your observations about important jobs-to-be-done and chat about how to do them better.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

But they worry about “flexibility stigma”—the likelihood that they’ll be labeled less than fully committed to work if they avail themselves of arrangements like flex time and paternity leave — and as a result suffer negative job and career consequences. For the U.S. This is the flexibility stigma at work.)

Survey 8

Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. As requests increase, however, and wonderfully so, I fear that I am going to overlook those with promise who don't quite know how to package themselves.

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) via n2growth.com [.] Best wishes Tom.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 412

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To figure out how to act on the laundry issue cropping up in our data, we had to start by better understanding what our guests really wanted from us (beyond clean, undamaged clothes being returned on time). These may be areas where being “good enough” is not good enough.

Hotels 8

Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

I've only included books I've actually read, and I tried to compile a list that includes history, literature, psychology, and how-to. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. But if I had to focus on a short list for young business leaders, I'd choose the 11 below.

Books 21

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

I've only included books I've actually read, and I tried to compile a list that includes history, literature, psychology, and how-to. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. But if I had to focus on a short list for young business leaders, I'd choose the 11 below.

Books 17

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. HBR: Clay Christensen has described this progression in technology from the integrated product to the modular. Barksdale: That’s right.

How To 13

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. How could a first-time author — not to mention one only two years out of business school — stand out? Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

While it might have been written as a treatise of what women could be doing to more of to gain more leadership positions in our organizations, and how we would all benefit from that happening, there was something else that stood out for me: it read as a pretty comprehensive list of things that the men have been doing wrong.

Career 8

Career Long-term Christensen Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S. First, the practice of a lay ministry.

Management 9

Management Covey Ulrich Christensen 9